she's a government employee of the school district who used taxpayer funds to buy food which she then apparently diverted to another buyer. she got away with it for 1.5 years. July 2020 to Feb 2022. nobody caught on until long after when the district being $300k over its annual food budget triggered an audit. chicken wings are not even on the school's menu.
Note that they were still preparing food for the children even though they didn't come to school. I don't know what the budget looked like, relatively. I know that around here they were delivering the food, so that seems like it would cost more. Delivery always costs more, right?
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she's a government employee of the school district who used taxpayer funds to buy food which she then apparently diverted to another buyer. she got away with it for 1.5 years. July 2020 to Feb 2022. nobody caught on until long after when the district being $300k over its annual food budget triggered an audit. chicken wings are not even on the school's menu.
You can't even sell over $600 on Etsy without triggering an IRS audit, but losing $300k for the government is just an oopsie-poopsie.
she stole $1.5m but they only caught on 1.5 years later because the budget was unusually high since she got greedy.
she probably worked the grift very easily early on since she was getting a full budget for kids who weren't coming to school because of covid.
Note that they were still preparing food for the children even though they didn't come to school. I don't know what the budget looked like, relatively. I know that around here they were delivering the food, so that seems like it would cost more. Delivery always costs more, right?
article says they kept the food at the school available for pickup.